“The second pilot has chest injuries, he is in the hospital, everything will be fine with him,” said Ural Airlines commercial director Kirill Skuratov at a press conference in Yekaterinburg.
Earlier, Damir Yusupov, the commander of the Airbus A321 aircraft, who made an emergency landing on the morning of August 15 after taking off from Zhukovsky Airport, said that he “did not feel like a hero” at all and saved the plane as he should have.
In connection with the emergency, 74 people sought medical help.